Famous Quotes & Sayings

The upward momentum has gone from these stocks. They are just hanging there waiting for a correction. This is an indication that these commodity price corrections do and can come very quickly and they do feed through to the stocks.

Jonathan Daniels

Expect to see commodity prices jump. It's not going to happen today or tomorrow, but it's something we need to be prepared for.

Peter DeFazio

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

David Harvey

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

There hasn't been a lot of correlation between commodity prices and inflation since 1990.

To replace a commodity material, you have to get those economies of scale.

Fred W. Friendly

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Karl Marx

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Karl Marx

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Howard Schultz

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

Our earnings in the third quarter reflect the impact of the relatively volatile industry environment on commodity prices and industry margins.

The narrowing trade surplus reflects some weakness in electronics exports and rising commodity imports but it's unlikely to be enough to relieve pressure from the U.S. in the short term.

The oil market has been driven by speculators, by hedge funds, by pension funds and by commodity indexes, but the fact of the matter is that it's mostly been driven by the fundamentals. Prices are supported by the fact that there is no spare capacity.

Raghuram Rajan

Oil and other commodity prices are going to have some effect over time.

Oil and gas goes up and down. Now, it's a high commodity and high production. As long as it holds, we'll see that kind of valuation.

Dell could figure out a way to sell Itanium, but they sell commodity stuff. It really doesn't fit their business.

DBC is designed for investors seeking portfolio diversification and exposure to global commodity returns, which have one of the lowest correlations to US equities and bonds. This platform will provide investors with systematic exposure to global commodities without the complication and difficulty of investing directly in futures contracts or in the commodities themselves.

Competition is going to rear its ugly head as companies cross over into each other's territory, ... Price has always been the key focus for telecom. It's a commodity business.

Dennis saw our Web site, and doo-wop music is a hot commodity on the East Coast. With our contract, Collectables will license, manufacture, advertise, promote and distribute the album. We then get a percentage of every piece sold.

Australia's dollar is obviously growth sensitive and the market won't muck around in pricing it down when commodity prices fall.

Christopher Lasch

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Peter Wright

A lot of those commodity stocks are pretty reasonably priced and we would continue to see gains in that sector, though they would be moderate.

Max Clifford

This is an extremely lucrative sport and a glamorous one. He can make a lot of money and be a very valuable commodity for advertisers.

This may be partly a commodity price story.

A sector stock fund doesn't give one true exposure. There are times when the underlying commodity is moving and the companies are not. It's a different investment. So, when you're looking for true diversity, you want a direct relationship to the commodity.

As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.

Michael Gregory

I'd thought they wouldn't want to sort of venture there again, given that all is not perfect on the commodity price front,

Electricity is now trading as a commodity - as soon as there's a shortage, that number goes up.

ERC doesn't really fit the GE that I want to have, ... The return on equity is too low and there's too many commodity segments. I hate having to give this message to you, but my responsibility to you is to manage it, and that's what I'm doing.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

This sounds ironic, but the growing need for fresh labor and investment are now weighing on profit trends, together with high levels of commodity prices.

We are viewing the lobster as a live creature rather than a commodity that deserves no concern.

Charles Babbage

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.